Martha Bolton is an Emmy, Dove, and Writers' Guild Award nominee, and was a staff writer for Bob Hope for over a decade and for Phyllis Diller, Mark Lowry, and many other comedians. She is the playwright for Blue Gate Musicals, with seven plays that have been playing in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Two of those plays are based on her novels, Josiah for President and The Home Game. The Home Game was awarded a Golden Scroll Merit Award for Fiction. She is married to her high school sweetheart and is the mother of three and the "Nana" to nearly a baseball team of grandchildren.